Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Marble Fragment with Ornamentation, Found in Palace of the Caliph (Dar al-Khilafa, Jawsaq al-Khaqani, Bayt al-Khalifah)
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Box 11, File 19, Folder 3, Image 41b FSA A.06 04.PF.19.089
- General
- - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld's publication, "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol. 1: Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik."
- Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
- Prints related primarly to the second campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1913.
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Names
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Collection Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Place
- Asia
- Iraq
- Mesopotamia
- Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)
- Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Dar al-Khilafa
- Topic
- Islamic art and architecture series
- Topic
- Abbasids
- Architecture
- Art of the Islamic World
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Decoration and ornament
- Creator
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- See more items in
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.19: Photo File 19: Samarra: Wandschmuck / are from the volume
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic print, b&w, 16 cm. x 7.2 cm.)
- Date
- 1911-1913
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 04.PF.19.089
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946.
- Arrangement
- Prints are organized in sequential number following publication series, "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra." They are arranged in photo file folders which are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Bibliography
- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1923: "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol. 1; Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik. Verlag Dietrich Reimer Ernst Vohsen, Berlin. Plate XXXVII, left."
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- - Original publication caption reads, "Orn. 101."
- - Additional information in publication reads, "101. Thronsäle, südlicher Tau-förmiger Saal; IN-625, IN-626 stammen aus dem Grabeneinschnitt südlich der Vorsäle, IN-648 von der NO-Ecke des groβen Innenhofes, möglicherweise ein verschlepptes Stück; IN-718, IN-729, IN-732, IN-738 aus der Grabung auf der Mitte der Südseite des groβen Innenhofes; IN-791, IN-802 und IN-829 südöstl. vom Haremshof, IN-913, IN-915, IN-966, IN-984 aus den östlichen Thronsälen, IN-984 aus dem Zimmer im SW-Winkel der Kreuzsäle; Tafel XXXVII und XXXVIII; Abb. 99."
- - Additional information from Archives staff reads, "No existing negative."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585219957152-1585219959355-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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